He was Kerrang! magazine’s star writer and the presenter of Monsters of Rock, his own weekly show on Sky TV, and the decade passed in a blur of hard drugs, hot women, and some of the heaviest people your mother definitely would not like.

Depicting a world where vague concepts like ‘the future’ are disdained in favour of nights that last a week and weeks that last forever, “Getcha Rocks Off” is a rock apocalypse “Cider With Roadies”, and a more frank and disturbing Apathy for the Devil. It is the kind of book you need to put on your leather jacket to read, open that bottle of Jack and reach for the Charlie. And let the good times roll…